Brazil vs Indonesia: Greenhouse gas emissions

Brazil
2.80 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Indonesia
1.90 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Brazil rank
4th
Indonesia rank
6th

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

  • Brazil
  • Indonesia
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How they compare

Brazil currently reports 2.80 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 1.90 billion tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Indonesia, a difference of 901.90 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Brazil's figure about 1.5 times Indonesia's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Indonesia ahead.

Brazil ranks 4th and Indonesia ranks 6th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Greenhouse gas emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source
Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.